Photo special to The News/Shannon ParisiThe man managed to crawl from the van and was on his feet when rescuers arrived.

DEERFIELD TWP. — A man who rolled his van off of the road and onto its roof managed to walk away from the crash, the deputy chief of the Rosenhayn Fire Department said Monday.

“He was traveling at a high rate of speed from an undetermined direction when he lost control of the vehicle and flipped it off of the roadway and struck a tree,” said Pete Jilinski.

There had been no witnesses to the actual crash, but the minivan the man had been driving had heavy damage to the front end.

It was teetering on its roof, front end down and rear end up, on the side of the road where Lebanon and Woodruff-Carmel Roads meet. The van’s dark green color and tires poking uselessly into the air called to mind a turtle stuck on its back.

The front passenger side was almost completely crumpled into the passenger compartment.

Despite the van rolling over and coming to rest on its roof, Jilinski said the crash victim, who he only described as an adult male, had managed to crawl from the wreckage and was walking and standing on his own when members of the Rosenhayn Fire Department and Rescue Squad arrived a few short minutes later.

The fire department had been dispatched at 5:37 p.m., and the victim was seen being trundled onto a stretcher and driven away at around 5:45 p.m.

Jilinski said he was being taken to South Jersey Healthcare-Regional Medical Center for undetermined injuries.

A state trooper and Rosenhayn firefighter George Olivio smoothly guided traffic to the left of the slice of grass where the roads meet as a flatbed Bianco Brothers Inc. tow truck turned the van over.

They hooked a cable to the far side of the van and winched the van first onto its side and then wheels, then used the same cable to drag the wreck onto the truck.

Jilinski said that the van was the only vehicle involved in the crash, and its driver the only person involved.

A state police representative from the Bridgeton barracks said around 7:30 p.m. that the man had crashed into a tree and was in good health.